CLASS OF 1855 



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APOCRYPHA 



CONCERNING 



THE CLASS OF 1855 



HARVARD COLLEGE, 



AND THEIR 

DEEDrf AND MISDEEDS DURING THE FIFTEEN YEARS BETWEEN 
JULY, 1S65, 2\2sT> JULY, 1880. 



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BY 

EDWIN H. ABBOT, 

Class Secretary. 



BOSTON: 

ALFRED MUDCE 8i SON, I'RLNTERS, 34 SCHOOL STilEET 

1880. 



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TO THE CLASS OF 1855. 



For the contents of this pamphlet the Secretar}' is alone respon- 
sible. If any of you think he has taken too great liberty with yonr 
story, please recollect tliat college life is only four years of boy- 
hood, and that our common memories and associations are those of 
j^outh. If he has erred in his effort to preserve them and their 
spirit, pray excuse him, for he would not willingly utter to you or 
of you a single unacceptable word . 

According to our custom, the names of all who ever were con- 
nected with the class are embraced in this record. Among those 
whom circumstances early separated from us, there are some whom 
all would wish to claim as friends on an}" excuse, and there is no 
reason wh}" the triennial list should circumscribe our good-fellow- 
ship. 

When the Secretar}^ sent out his first report, we were in the first 

flush and vigor of manhood. We have now reached the prime of 

life and the crown of the pathway. That out of our full number of 

ninety -two we have lost only fifteen during these twenty-five years 

is not only an illustration of the longevity of educated men, but 

speaks well for the temperate and manly character of our class. 

Sero in ccelum redeat. 

Edwin H. Abbot, 

Class Secretary. 
5 Pemberton Square, 28 Junk, 1880. 



MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1855. 



Abbot, Edwin Hale 
Agassiz, Alexander 
Allison, William 
Amoby, William 
Arnold, Louis 

Badger, William Whittlesey 
Bailey, Jonas Minot 
*Balch, John 

Barlow, Francis Channing 
*Barnwell, Robert Hayne 
Blake, Samuel Parkman 
Bliss, Willard Flagg 
Brooks, Phillips 
*Brooks, Warren 
Brown, Charles Loring 
Brown, Edward Jackson 
Browne, Edward Ingersoll 
Buck, Charles William 
Burns, William Coleman 
Chace, Edward Henry 
Chase, Charles Augustus 
Clapp, Channing 
Clark, James Benjamin 
*Clark, Randolph Marshall 
Clarke, Thomas William 
Crocker, George Gordon 
Cushing, Joseph M. 
Cutter, Charles Ammi 
*Dalton, Edward Barry 
Dexter, George 



Edgerly, John Woods 
*Elli8, Payson Perrin 
Emmerton, James Arthur 
*Erving, Langdon 
Evans, Alfred Douglas 
Evans, William Henry 
Everett, Henry Sidney 
Fiske, Frank William 
GiBBENs, Edwin Augustus 
Green, John 

Gregory, Charles Augustus 
GuTMAN, Joseph 
Hampson, George Henry 
Hayes, Joseph 
Heywood, Joseph Converse 
HiGGiNSON, Henry Lee 
HoBBS, Charles Cushing 
*HoDGES, George Foster 
HosMER, James Kendall 
Johnston, Samuel 
Jones, Leonard Augustus 
Lawrence, Samuel Crocker 
Longfellow, William Pitt Prebl 
Lyman, Benjamin Smith 
Lyman, Charles Frederic 
Lyman, Theodore 
*Maceuen, Malcom 
Mackay, William 
McKenzie, William Slidell 
McLellan, George Frederic 



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Marsh, Christopher Bridge 
*Meriam, William Ward 
Mitchell, James Tyndale 
Morton, Edwin 
Paine, Robert Treat 
*Perkins, Stephen GtEORge 
Philbrick, William Dean 
Phillips, Willard Quincy 
Eand, Edward Sprague 
Reed, James 

Richards, William Whiting 
Riddle, William Quincy 
Ropes, Nathaniel 

RUPPANNER, AnTOINE 

*RussELL, Edward Grenville 
Russell, George Peabody 



Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin 

*Sanger, Charles Frederic 

Sawyer, George Carleton 

*Schley, Samuel Ringgold 

Seawell, James Many 

Stone, Charles Francis 

Thwing, Edward Payson 

TiLESTON, John Boies 

Ventres, William Hosmer Shailer 

*Wainwright, Isaac Parker 

Walker, Henry 

Waters, Henry Fitz Gilbert 

Wild, Walter Henry 

Willard, Joseph 

Wright, Smith 

YoNGUE, Andrew Lammey 



HARVARD COLLEGE 

CLi^SS OF 1855. 



EDWIN H. ABBOT was married Sept. 19, 1866, to Martha T., 
the 3^oungest daughter of the late Eben Steele, Esq., of Portland, 
Me. His only son, Philip Staule}^ Abbot, was born in Brookline, 
Mass., on Sept. 1, 1867. He spent three months in the Azores in 
1869, but, with that exception, was constantly engaged in the prac- 
tice of law in Boston, at No. 4 Court Street and No. 13 Pemberton 
Square, from 1867 to July, 1875, in partnership with Leonard A. 
Jones. Since July, 1875, he has had no partner. Since 1873, 
he has been employed in railroad and corporate litigation and 
affairs ; and, since 1875, has maintained an office in Milwaukee, 
Wis., at No. 110 Wisconsin Street, as well as in Boston. His 
present Boston office is at No. 5 Pemberton Square. He has prac- 
tised, chiefly in the Federal courts, in many States as well as in the 
United States Suj^-eme Court in Washington. In 1878, he was 
appointed to succeed the late Chief Justice George T. Bigelow, as 
Trustee under the first mortgage of the Wisconsin Central Railroad 
Company. As the active Trustee in possession of that railroad 
during the past eighteen months, he has been reorganizing it upon 
a novel plan, which is truly styled a new departure in corporate 
reorganization. It avoids the losses incident to ordinarj^ fore- 
closures, and has, therefore, attracted considerable attention from 
many persons who have been so unfortunate as to be interested in 
such property' during the recent hard times. He may be addressed, 
indifferently, either at Milwaukee, or Post-office Box No. 1,151, 



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Boston. He still maintains his citizenship in Cambridge, Mass., 
where he built a house on the site of the "Charles C. Little " observ- 
atory, but gave it up to become commorant in Wisconsin, and live 
in Pullman cars. He is the General Solicitor and Vice-President 
of the reorganized Wisconsin Central Railroad Compan}^ So far 
as official duties permit, he accepts retainers in corporate and 
chancery causes. This class of litigation in the West is chiefly 
confined to the Federal courts ; and he consequently wanders over 
the West and the Northwest generally. Indeed, the only limit to 
his travels is set by the amount of the retainer. His latest and 
toughest case has been the preparation of these Apocrypha con- 
cerning his classmates. 

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ started on a deep-sea dredging trip 
early in the present month of June. He wrote the Secretar}' that 
he was very sorry to miss our dinner, and greatly feared that, while 
we were eating ours, he would be getting rid of his. This ante- 
peristaltic action seemed asunpleasing in prospect to our great savant 
as we unscientific '' ignorami " find it actuall}^ to be. Not even his per- 
fect comprehension of the process reconciles him to its use. Never- 
theless, to the thoughtful mind, here is beautifull}' exhibited the ex- 
quisite economy of nature. As thus : he whose genius dissects the 
minute natives of the ocean, is compelled to nourish the wondrous, 
little beasts on which that genius feeds. While by his mental 
processes he illustrates the structure of his specimens, he, at the 
same time, in accordance with the law of evolution, by a simple 
natural function, helps to keep up the supply. Thus the man sup- 
ports the Curator, and we behold the survival of the fittest, and 
the powers of destruction and construction working together. 

Agassiz's children since 1865 are Maximilian Agassiz, born May 
21, 1866, and Rudolphe Louis Agassiz, born Sept. 3, 1871. In 
1874, he suffered the double loss of both father and wife ; and 
much as he doubtless knew of friendly sympathj' then, he could not 
know, though he might feel, the influence of the general sorrow of 
friends and neighbors, who did not think it kind to press it upon 
his notice. 

To Agassiz belongs the honor of having the first boy of " 1855 " 



in Harvard College. His oldest son is at this moment a member 
of the class of 1884, having in 1879 passed his examination. 

In 1865, Agassiz became engaged in coal mining in Pennsylvania, 
in addition to his occupation at the Zoological Museum. This led 
to his going to Lake Superior in 1866, and being connected with 
the Calumet Mine, first, as its treasurer, and, afterwards, in 1867, 
as the superintendent of that and the adjoining mine, the *' Hecla." 
He lived with his family two years and a half on Lake Superior ; 
and then returned to Boston to become the president of the com- 
pan}^, which office he has retained to the present day. 

In the fall of 1869, he visited Europe and examined the museums 
and collections of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Northern 
Europe. He returned in the fall of 1870, and resumed his duties 
as Assistant Curator of the museum. Upon the death of Professor 
Louis Agassiz in 1874, he was appointed Curator, which office he 
still holds ; and he assures the Secretary that he regularly draws the 
large salary connected with that office. During the summer of 
1874, he acted as Director of the Anderson School of Natural His- 
tory at Penikese. Differences between Mr. Anderson and the 
Director led to the closing of this school at the end of its second 
session-* 

In 1875, he made an expedition to the west coast of South 
America, to examine the copper mines of Peru and Chili. During 
that time he made an extended surve}' of Lake Titicaca, and with 
the aid of his assistant, Mr. Sarman, gathered an immense collec- 
tion of Peruvian antiquities, which is now in the Peabody Museum 
at Cambridge. These collections represent the antiquities of the 
Lake of old Trahuanaco, and of the shore Indians at A neon. 

In 1875, he was invited by Sir Wyville Thomson to assist him 
in arranging and making up the collections of the great, English 
exploring expedition of the " Challenger," and a part of these collec- 
tions he brought back with him from Scotland to this country. He 
has just finished his final report on the sea-urchins of this famous 
expedition. 

Since 1876, he has himself spent ever}' winter in similar deep-sea 
dredging expeditions, the superintendent of the Coast Survc}' hav- 
ing each year placed at his disposal the steamer " Blake." These 
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expeditions have enabled liim to explore the deep water of the Gulf 
of Mexico and of the Caribbean Sea. The success which has 
attended these expeditions has been very considerable, mainly, as 
lie says, from the interest shown in the work by the commanders of 
the " Blake" ; but very much, as I am assured by others, through 
his own great ingenuity and special familiarity with hoisting and 
mining machinery, which has enabled him to introduce new methods 
in place of the old ways of deep-sea dredging. 

*' I have less hair," he writes, " than I had twenty years ago, 
but have lost no teeth, and am neither blind nor gouty." 

Agassiz's remarkable skill and success in Lake Superior copper- 
mining is absolutely unique. It is fair to tell his classmates, what 
is the simple truth, that the development of the Calumet and Hecla 
mines, which supply annually one. tenth of all the copper used in the 
civilized world, and control the American market, is more the result 
of his scientific and executive ability than of anj' other one thing. 
Its plant of machinery alone has cost over $3,000,000. It has been 
devised and created under his direct supervision, and has rendered 
these mines, par excellence^ second to none in the world. For most 
men this mining achievement would alone be a life-work, and glor^^ 
enough to make its author famous. To Agassiz, however, it is 
merely an incident in a scientific life, which already has placed him 
in the front rank of natural scientists. 

As a single illustration of the noble way in which he uses his 
great wealth in public enterprises, a quotation from the history 
of Alma Mater will please you. What generous acts in the by- 
ways of private life such a man performs, may be conjectured 
from this story ; but silence is here the most genuine tribute of 
respect. 

President Eliot, in his speech at the annual dinner of the Har- 
vard Club in New York, Feb. 20, 1880, made the following 
remarks : — 

" I said that I hardly knew m3'self how much mone}^ the 
Universit}^ has received. Let me give you an illustration of the 
difficulties wliich I encounter in trying to add up the gifts to the 
University. One of our most liberal benefactors has given since 
1871 no less than $230,000 to a single dejjartment of the University^ 



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besides numerous subscriptions and gifts to other departments. 
Tiie public knows of tliis gentleman's beneficence to tlie College 
on]}' to the amount of $65,000. He has a peculiar wa}^ of giving. 
He sees a need in one of the departments of the Universit}-, and 
he goes and supplies it, pays the bill, and sa3"s nothing about the 
transaction. He thinks this department needs more room. He 
contracts for a building and erects it on the land of the President 
and Fellows, without even communicating the fact that he proposes 
to erect such a building. In this wa}^ he has given the University 
$230,000. These facts have been heretofore unknown except to 
two or three persons ; but it seemed to me the}' were ver}' instruc- 
tive, and that 3'ou would like to hear them. 

" As this gentleman is sitting at your table, I will not wound 
his modesty b}' mentioning his name : but I will take the liberty of 
mentioning that he is a distinguished scientific student and author, 
the best authority in the world on certain forms of marine life, and 
an indefatigable explorer of the depths of the sea ; that he was 
formerty an Overseer, and is now a Fellow, of the corporation ; 
and that he is, incidentall}^, the manager of the most successful 
copper mine in the world." 

Your Secretar}' procured, with extreme difficult}^ from the learned 
author, a list of Agassiz's publications. But this eminent savant 
indulges in a chirograph}- which is simply vile. The Secretary's 
science is now so slight that, as soon as the MSS. arrived, he promptly 
sent them, upon mere inspection of the record, travelling two thou- 
sand miles after the Fish Commissioner for translation into that 
cursive character which printers love. If the learned author 
finds his little beasts nicknamed, the Secretary avers that all 
errors in their titles are due to the crass ignorance of the fishy 
translation, and the probable use of a lame pony by some piscato- 
rial hireling. The Secretary solemnly affirms that he did not ven- 
ture to tamper with a single letter even in the name of that single 
familiar creature, of wliich, in his boyhood, he made the acquaint- 
ance off the wharves of Beverly. The department of Fish must 
bear the responsibility. 



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PUBLICATIONS OF AGASSIZ. 

In the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History^ 

1866-1869. 

On Salpa Cabotti. Vol. XI. 1866. 
Notes on Beaver Dams. 1869. 
Habits of Echinoderms. 1869. 
On Sandstones of Lake Superior. 

In the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History^ 1866-1869. 

Arachnactis brachiolata. 
Embrj^ology of Starfishes (Tornaria) . 

Young stages of a few Annelids (reprinted from Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist.). 

Notes on the genus Leskia of Loven. 

In the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

1874-1878. 

Notice of Dr. J. E. Holbrook. 

Hydrographic sketch of Lake Titicaca. Echini from Kerguelen 
Island. 

Sketch of Von Baer. 

On the young of Osseous Fishes. I. 

On the young of Osseous Fishes. II. Development of the 
Flounders. 

Embryology of Lepidosteus. 

In the Memoirs of the American Academy, 1872, 

Embryolog}^ of Balanoglossus and Tornaria. 
Embryology of Ctenophoriie. 

In the American Naturalist, 1872-1876. 

Reviews of " Huxley and Martin's Biology." 
Lankester on Limu-us. 
Note on Tornaria. 
Note on Arachnactis. 



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Note on Flounders. 

On Zoological Stations. 

On Delesse Lithology of deep sea. 

On Pedicellariae. 

On Zoological Nomenclature. 

In Nation and in Nature^ a number of reviews on Hneckel, 
deep-sea dredging expeditions, and other zoological subjects ; a 
review of the " Life of J. D. Forbes.'' 

In the American Journal of Science. 

A number of reviews and minor papers. 

On Haeckel's " AUacogenesis." 

Milne Edwards's " Oiseaux Fossils." 

Thomson's " Depths of the Sea." 

Progress in the Natural History of Annelids. 

Claparede's " Brj'ozoa." 

Notice of Claparede. 

MetschinkofF on Comatula. 

Allman's '' Tubularia." 

Reviews of papers by Kewalewky, Metschinkoff, and Leuckart. 

Notice of the Habits of young Limulus. 

The Gastrsea Theory of Haeckel. 

Haeckel's ^' System der Medusen." 

Instinct in Hermit Crabs. 

In the Archives de Z'jologfe, 1875-1879. 

Development des Pleuronectes. 

Hybridite des fitoiles de Mer. 

Sur les Edwardsies. 

Les Theories Embryogeniques de Haeckel. 

Report of the Anderson School of Penikese, 1873. 
Reports of the Museum of Comparative Zoologj^ for 1873, 1874, 
1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879. 



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la the Bulletins of the Museum of Compnrative Zoology, 

1869-1879. 

Ecliini collected b}' Mr. Pourtales in the Gulf Stream, and 

Addenda to the same, with List of Starfishes. 

New species of Echini. 

Preliminary Notice of the " Hassler " Echini. 

The Carboniferous Belt of Lake Titicaoa. 

Corals from Tilibiche, Pern, b}' A. Agassiz and L. F. Pourtales. 

Application of Photography to Natural History. 

Letters 1 to 3 on the Dredging Expeditions of the U. S. Coast 
Survey Steamer "Blake," to Superintendent of U. S. Coast 
Survey. 

In, the Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology^ 

1872-1877. 

Revision of the Echini. 

Echini of the " Hassler " Expedition. 

North American Starfishes. 

PRIZES. 

From the Boston Society of Natural History. 
Walker Prize of Natural History. 

The Grand Honorar^^ Prize, given once in five years, was in 
1873 given to A. Agassiz, first time it had been given. 

From the Academie des Sciences of Paris. 

The Prix Serres, given once in ten years, was in 1878 for the 
first time assigned to a foreigner, — to A. Agassiz. 

He was appointed Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zo- 
ology in 1874, and Director of the Anderson School of Natural 
History in 1874-. He was elected by the Alumni one of the Over- 
seers of Harvard College in 1874, and was chosen by the corpora- 
tion to be one of the P'ellows of Harvard College in 1878. 

He is also a member of the following societies : The Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical 



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Societ}' of the same place ; the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. ; the 
National Academy of Science of the United States ; the Societe Phi- 
lomatique, Paris ; the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science ; the Societe Helvetique des Sciences Natarelles ; Sencken- 
bergische Gesellschaft, Frankfort ; Societe des Sciences Naturelles, 
Cherbourg ; the Societ}' of Natural Histoiy of Montreal ; the Geo- 
logical Society of Manchester ; the Zoological Societ}^ of London ; 
the Linnean Society, London ; the Literaiy and Philosophical 
Societj', Liverpool ; Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscow ; 
Phj'sik Med. Gesellschaft, Wiirzburg ; the Society of Mining and 
Mechanical Engineers; " Isis," of Dresden; Academia Panormi- 
tana ; Naturforschende Gesellschaft of Emden ; Verein fih' Vater- 
landische Cultur, WiJrtemberg ; Eoyal Microscopical Societ}' of 
London ; Societe de Physique et d'Histoke Naturelle de Geneve. 

WILLIAM ALLISON. Nothing has been heard about Allison 
by the Secretar}' since the last report in 1865. 

WILLIAM AMORY, Jr. Amor}^ has continued in business 
in Boston since the last report. He is a member of the firm of 
J. L. Bremer & Co., and resides at No. 29 Chestnut Street, Boston. 

LOUIS ARNOLD. He has lived a very quiet and monotonous 
life, he sa^'s, since 1865. In Januar}', 1865, he entered the office of 
Campbell, Whittier & Co., makers of steam engines, boilers, gen- 
eral machiner}', and elevators, which were then just coming into 
demand for buildings. He 'intended to remain for three months 
only to adjust their accounts, which were then somewhat demoral- 
ized. He has continued, however, in that business ever since, and 
is now a part owner in the Whittier Machinery Company, the suc- 
cessor of Campbell, Whittier & Co., and a corporation organized 
under the laws of Massachusetts. He finds the business pleasant 
in its nature. The enormous demand for elevators in public build- 
ings and private residences has made the manufacture of elevators 
a ver}" important item in his business. He has made two for 
Agassiz, and seven for E. I. Browne, and is making boilers for the 
class generally. He frequently send« boilers to the West. His 



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concern makes more varieties of elevators than an}^ other factor3^ 
They had one in the late Sydney exhibition in Australia. It was 
the object of special mention, and received a special award. 
Arnold's duties embrace accounts and the keeping the time of one 
hundred and thirty emploj^es, and tabulating material used in the 
construction of various machines, and in estimating the cost of 
each. This work is the more important and difficult because no 
two elevators are alike ; and he consequently finds his mathemat- 
ical training at Harvard of the greatest value. 

On Ma}' 8, 1866, he was married in Providence to Helen Adelia 
Nichols. History records that his marriage presented such peculiar 
difficulties that it took two clergj^men to surmount them, — one an 
Episcopalian and the other a Baptist. The actual performance 
resulted in a quarrel between these two representatives of Chris- 
tianity, which added a peculiar spiciness to the occasion. He has 
had three children : the eldest, Ethel Hastings, born April 27, 1868 ; 
Chester, born May 1, 1870 ; and Evelyn Howard, born Oct. 27, 
1875. His youngest little girl died suddenly during Arnold's 
absence at the Exposition at Philadelphia. Arnold means that his 
boy shall go to Harvard. 

WILLIAM WHITTLESEY BADGER is still practising law 
in New York City, having his office at No. 178 Broadway, and 
waiting impatiently for the publication of the College ''Roll of 
Honor." 

JONAS MINOT BAILEY. Nothing has been heard from 
Bailey since our graduation. 

* JOHN BALCII. Died in Somerville many 3^ears ago. 

FRANCLS CIIANNING BARLOW resumed the practice of 
law in New York City at the close of the war. He was appointed 
United States Marshal by President Grant ; and his independent 
conduct of that office, and refusal to pay political assessments based 
upon a valuation of its assumed corrupt use, led to a spicy corre- 
spondence iu the Nation, which honest men greatly enjoyed, and 



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which reflected honor on Barlow's old instructors in rlietoric. At 
the last moment before going to press, the Secretary has received 
from Boston the following model letter in reply to his circular. It 
speaks for itself; and no apology is necessary for printing it at 
length. Ilis firm is Barlow e^ Olney, having its office at No. 206 
Broadway. 

" New York, 206 Broadway, June 20, 1880. 
Edwin H. Abbot, Esq., Class Secretary. 

" My Dear Abbot, — At your request I write an account of the 
principal events of my life since our decennial class meeting in 
1865. 

''It is not agreeable to speak of one's self, and I therefore make 
m}' stor}' as brief as possible. 

" In the fall of 1865 I returned to Massachusetts from the army, 
somewhat uncertain whether I should resume the practice of the 
law in the city of New York, or go South in some commercial or 
industrial pursuit, or perhaps even remain in the army, where Mr. 
Stanton had personally offered me a good rank. 

"- In September, 1865, I was unexpectedly nominated (while I was 
still in Massachusetts) for the office of Secretary of State by the 
New York Convention. A military candidate was desired, and I 
happened to be the most available candidate of high rank. 

'' The Democrats nominated Gen. Slocum, a distinguished officer, 
but our ticket was elected. 

" On the day after election, —that is, on Nov. 7, 1865, — I re- 
signed my commission as Attorne^'-General. 

'' This nomination and election determined me to return to New 
York, and to my profession, the law. 

'' My term of office began on Jan. 1, 1866, and lasted two years, 
my office and official residence being at Albany. 

" The office, though next to that of Lieutenant-Governor (and 
consequently the third office in the State) in nominal rank, is in its 
own proper duties an insignificant one. But as a member of the 
Canal Board, and one of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund 
(which has a supervision of canal affairs), and a Commissioner of 
the Land Office, which has charge of the public lands, the Secretary 
has important duties and responsibilities. 



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" The recollection of this office^gives me little satisfaction. 

" Some of my colleagues and mj'self opposed, as well as we 
could, the corrupt canal schemes which have disgraced the State, 
but we were not sufficiently acquainted with the subject to be of 
much pubhc service, and altogether I did but little good. 

" Finding that I was not required to be at Albany the entire 
time, I resumed the practice of the law in New York, opening an 
office there on May 15, 1866. 

"By a piece of great good luck, I obtained the position of coun- 
sel of the National Park Bank, one of the two largest banks in the 
countr}^ in the size of its deposits and the volume of its business. 

" This client I have always retained ; and, as it has an immense 
foreign (out-of-town) correspondence, it has been of great value 
professionally. 

"During 1866 and 1867, I spent about half of the time at Al- 
ban}^, and half in my office in New York. 

"I was not renominated for Secretary, although I was a candi- 
date. 

" The convention was in the hands of the faction of the party, 
the Fenton wing, to w^hich all the outgoing State officers were op- 
posed, and none of us were renominated. 

" The Democrats were, how^ever, successful at the election. 

"I continued the practice of my profession, without holding any 
political office, until Ma}^, 1869, when I was appointed by General 
Grant to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of 
New York. 

*' I held this office until October of that year (1869), when I re- 
signed, because the duties of the office broke up my professional 
practice, which was worth far more than $6,000, the pa}- of the 
Marshal, or rather the ho7iest salary. 

" I feel great satisfaction in my discharge of the duties of this 
office. 

" It had become a nest of corruption, plundering the litigants in 
the Federal courts (whos > sheriff or executive officer the Marshal 
is), and being mixed up with the great frauds then perpetrated on 
the United States revenue, in connection with tlie whiskey and 
tobacco excie. 



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" In less than a week I rcnioved every person whom I found in 
the office, and supplied their places b}' honest and faithful officers, 
and introduced a high degree of discipline and efficiency. 

'' In the summer of 1869, strenuous attempts were made by sym- 
pathizers with the Cuban insurgents to send men, arms, and sup- 
plies to that island, which expeditions the government sought to 
suppress, as being violations of the neutralit}' laws. 

" The dut}' of breaking up these expeditio.iS fell upon me, and, in 
connection with the United States Attorne}', I was invested by the 
President (by an especial commission under the Act of 1818) with 
extraordinary powers over the United States forces — military, 
naval, and revenue — in New England, New York, and New Jer- 
sey. For several months our operations were very like those of 
a military and naval campaign, and we captured large numbers 
and amounts of men and materials of war, and completely broke 
up these expeditions. 

'' When these operations were over I resigned, as above stated, 
procuring from the President the appointment of my chief deputy 
as m}^ successor. 

" Early in 1871 I had an experience of a quasi public character, 
which I mention because it probably had some influence in procur- 
ing my nomination as Attorne3'-General. 

" In that spring I was one of the founders of the ' Bar Associa- 
tion,' the first institution of the kind in the country, and for the 
first two years I was one of its Executive Committee. 

" In February of that year (1871) I had a public controversy 
(through a series of letters to the Tribune) with Mr. David Dudley 
Field, as to his connection with Fisk and Gould and the Erie Rail- 
way, which I vehementl}' attacked. This involved criticisms of 
Judges Barnard and Cardozo, then on the bench, and in the height 
of their power ; and the controversy was of public service as showing 
that a member of the Bar, practising before them, might publicly 
attack them and their acts without incurring any serious risks. 

"At the conclusion of this controversy I preferred charges in 
the Bar Association against Mr. Field, which went off on the tech- 
nical ground that the acts compkiined of were done before he 
became a member of the Association. 



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"On the 4tb of July, 1871, the so-called 'Tweed,' or 'Rmg' 
disclosures were made, and I was appointed one of the ' Committee 
of Seventy,' which w^as appointed by the citizens of all parties to 
further the cause of reform. 

" I Avas made Chairman of its Law Committee, and afterwards 
one of its four paid counsel. 

" In September, 1871, 1 was nominated by the Eepublicans for the 
office of Attornej^-General. This was no doubt owing to m}^ con- 
nection with the Committee of Sevent3^ and also to my controversy 
with Mr. Field, and the attention which had been attracted to it. 

'' I was elected, and held the office through 1872 and 1873. 

'* As Attorney-General, I had the superintendence of all the suits 
and prosecutions against Tweed and the other ring peculators, the 
active management of which was conducted by Mr. O'Conor and 
Mr. Tilden, and other counsel retained and paid by me (except 
Mr. O'Conor and Mr. Tilden, who would receive no compensation) . 

" I also brought the suit in the name of The People, and con- 
ducted the proceedings, against Fisk and Gould, which resulted in 
their being ousted from control of the Erie Railway. 

" But my chief personal exertions in this office were in connection 
with canal matters. 

'' I made myself thoroughly familiar with the laws on this sub- 
ject, and with canal matters generall3^ 

" I opposed every corrupt scheme in the Canal Board, not only 
1)}' my vote and influence, but also by bringing suits in the name of 
The People, and procuring injunctions against my colleagues and 
others. 

" I also brought a large number of suits to recover mone}^ cor- 
ruptly obtained from the State, besides checking many payments 
b}^ injunction and otherwise. 

" Some forms of corruption were entirely checked during my 
term of office. 

' I feel that I thoroughly and efficiently discharged my dut}^ as 
Attorney-General. 

" My suits and proceedings were generally successful in the Su- 
preme Court, but ultimatelj^ failed by decisions of the Court of 
Appeals. Most of the suits tried in the time of Mr. Tilden's gov- 



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ernorship, and since, atYer his 'canal reform policy' had attracted 
attention, were originally brought by me. Of a list of foiiiteen, 
lately reported to the Legislature as constituting the ' Canal Re- 
form ' litigations, all but three — that is, eleven— were brought by 
me. 

" Although these suits have generally failed in the Court of Ap- 
peals, as above stated, they were of service as attracting attention 
to canal peculations, and as exposing these frauds in the courts. 
Although little, if anything, has been recovered from the pecula- 
tors, yet the agitation has resulted in stopping these peculations, 
and in constitutional amendments which have rendered them far 
more difficult. 

'* I have the satisfaction of knowing that, of the jobs and schemes 
which Mr. Tilden's Canal Investigating Committee brought to pub- 
lic attention and condemnation, every one which came before the 
Canal Board appears b}^ its records to have met my vigorous oppo- 
sition and condemnation. I was not renominated for this office. 
I earl 3^ refused to be a candidate ; but about two weeks before the 
convention I consented, at the request of Governor Dix, Mr. 
O'Conor, Mr. Evarts, and others, that my name might be used. 
But it was too late to accomplish anything in the convention, even 
if an earlier movement on m}^ part would have been effectual 
against the hostility of the canal and ring peculators. 

" Since Jan. 1, 1874, 1 have held no public office, but have prac- 
tised my profession, which I had continued, as best I could, through 
the periods of public office above mentioned. 

" While I was Attorney-General, however, I was able to do but 
little in my private office, being kept at Albany most of the time. 

'' I have always practised in the city of New York ; and since 
1870 I have been in partnership with Mr. Peter B. Olney, a grad- 
uate of Harvard in the Class of 1864, my firm being Barlow & 
Olney. 

''My practice, though not brilliant or as lucrative as I might 
wish, has been respectable and comfortable. 

'' My clients have been largely banks, bankers, and corporations, 
many of them coming to me through the Park Bank. 

'' Of late years 1 have been largely occu[)ied as counsel of the 



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receivers of insolvent savings banks and insurance companies, 
and in that capacity I haA^e had large experience in suits of rather 
a novel character, — that is, suits against trustees and officers of 
these institutions, to recover money lost by tlieir illegal and im- 
proper acts ; and we have succeeded in establishing principles 
which hold such persons to a strict performance of their duties. 

*' I have also been retained somewhat by the city and State 
authorities in suits against public officers, or relating to public 
affairs. 

'' This latter business, as well as the savings-bank and insurance 
business, grew out of my having held the office of Attorney General, 
which has thus resulted in an incidental advantage to me. 

'* Since I was Attorney-General I have been engaged in one matter 
of a quasi-public nature. 

" After the Presidential election of 1876, 1 was asked by General 
Grant, then President, to go to Florida to ' witness the count.' 

" I had the misfortune to differ from most of my party as to the 
result in Florida, and I frankly expressed my opinion. I supposed 
that we were asked to visit the disputed States, not as ' counsel * 
for the Republican party, but as impartial and disinterested observ- 
ers whose honest opinion was desired. I acted strictly in that 
capacit}", and labored faithfully, not only to urge the case of the 
Republicans where I believed they were right, but to equalh^ pro- 
tect the rights of the other side, and to have the result declared in 
accordance with law and justice, as I understood them. 

*' For this I have been accused of treachery to the Republican 
party, but no question was ever made to me as to the propriety of 
my position and conduct (even by those who now bitterly attack 
them) while we were in Florida or on our wdy home, or afterwards 
(I having received friendly communications from some of the chief 
of m}^ critics after our return home), until three years had elapsed. 
I have at least the satisfaction of being satisfied with the integrity 
of my own conduct ; for I believe that no evils which can possibly 
result from the ascendency of the Democratic party (and as a strong 
and unfaltering Republican I believe that those evils would be very 
great) would be so ruinous as the adoption b}^ the Republican party 
of the practice of cheating at Presidential elections. 



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"In October, 18G6, I was mfirried to Miss Ellon Slmw, of 
Staten Island, the yonngost danghter of Francis George Sbaw, Esq., 
and the sister of Col RobeilG. Sbaw, whom I fitted to enter the 
Sophomore Class, at Harvard, in the snminer of 1856 M3' wife's 
next eldest sister is the widow of Col. Charles Rnssell Lowell, of 
the Class of 1854. Her two other sisters married respectively Mr. 
George William Curtis and Mr. Robert B. Minturn. I have three 
children, — two sons and one daughter. The oldest, Robert Shaw 
Barlow, was born Ju^y 4, 1869, at Staten Island ; the second son, 
Charles Lowell Barlow, was born in the city of New York, on Oct. 
10, 1871 ; and the girl at Lenox, Mass., on July 27, 1873, her name 
being Louisa Shaw Barlow. 

" Since 1865 I have lived in the city of New York, except that 
I pass my summers (or rather my famil}' do) at Lenox, Mass. 

" This letter is not as brief as I expected when I began, and I 
fear it is much longer and fuller than most of those which you have 
received. However, as I write at the last moment of the time 
which you have given us, I have no time to rewrite or condense it. 
I have necessaril}^ spoken without reserve of myself, because if 
these autobiographies are to be of any value at all as giving an in- 
sight into the lives of the class, it is necessar}' that we should speak 
frankly and without hesitation. 

" Ever sincerely your classmate, 

" Fkancis C. Barloav." 

* ROBERT HAYNE BARNWELL, probably, died in South 
Carolina some j^ears ago. The Secretary is unable to obtain au- 
thentic information with regard to him. 

SAMUEL PARKMAN BLAKE, Jr., married Oct. 14, 1868, 
Miss Mary Lee Higginson, sister of our classmate, and removed 
from Philadelphia to Boston with his family in 1872, and entered 
into the real-estate business. His present office is No. 19 Exchange 
Place. He resides at No. 32 Chestnut Street, Boston, and has four 
children: Marion Lee, born July 11, 1869 ; Robert Parkmnn, born 
Oct. 26, 1870; Theresa Fluntington, born Jan. 12, 1874; George 
Higginson, lorn April 23, 1876. 



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WILLARD FLAGG BLISS. Nothing has been heard from 
Bliss for many 3'ears, but he is supposed to be married and farm- 
ing in Illinois. 

PHILLIPS BROOKS. In the aatumn of 1869 he left Phila- 
delphia, wliere he had been living for ten j-ears, and came to Bos- 
ton to be the rector of Trinity Church. He spends this summer in 
England, and regrets that he is compelled to leave before the date 
of our dinner. He lives at 175 Marlboro Street. Brooks soon 
found the old edifice on Summer Street too small for his congrega- 
tion ; and when the great fire destroyed it in 1872, the parish 
built on the Back Bay the largest and finest church in Boston. It 
is crowded at every service ; and several of his classmates are 
among those who throng it to listen to his words about the only 
life worth living, and to get help from him to live it. It is not 
easy to express what should be said about him here, because to say 
the whole truth would seem extravagant. His power in the pulpit 
is, actually, one of the great forces which exist and act to-day in 
shaping human life in our city ; and in more than our city. No 
one can sit under his preaching and help feeling that its soul lies 
in the preacher's own efforts to be himself what he urges and helps 
others to become. Never was a prophet more honored and revered 
by those who knew him, though he dwells in his own country ; and 
none more freely and heartil}^ recognize and accept him in his 
function than his own classmates and old schoolmates. 

He generall}" spends the summer in Europe to rest and prepare 
for the next season's work. He has preached often in England, 
where he is followed almost as he is here. He holds a special ser- 
vice, and preaches on Julj^ Fourth of this year in Westminster, by 
Dean Stanley's invitation, as he has already done in former years. 
As we grow older and learn to seek more for the substance and 
care less for the shadows of human existence. Brooks becomes to 
those who were boys with him more and more a friend. The 
tics which drew them to him in youth are twisted into the fibre of 
their best aspirations in maturer 3xars, and reac^h down into the 
secret chambers of their lives. 



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* WARREN BROOKS died at Townsend, Mass., on Feb. 4, 
1857. 

CHARLES LORING BROWN. Nothing has been heard of 
Brown since he left us in the Freshman year. 

EDWARD JACKSON BROWN was, at the time of the last 
report, a prosperous merchant in the firm of Bemis & Brown, 
manufacturers and jobbers of cotton goods in St. Louis, Mo., and 
dealers in cotton in Boston. About 1873, he withdrew from this 
firm, after it had lasted for about sixteen years. Rumor says the 
reason of its dissolution was that both partners had grown so rich 
that they were too lazy to make any more money. Since that time, 
Brown has courted fortune in a desultory wa}', keeping up his 
shingle, he says, as a dealer in cotton, in association with his 
brother, under tlie firm name of E. J. Brown & Co. Bat he 
hardly commends his example to any aspiring young merchant 
who wishes to do business. He denies the existence of au}^ literary 
bantlings, and has alwa3's avoided foreign travel. He has had six 
children: Charles Farwell, who was born Jan. 20, 1865, and died 
Nov. 16, 1877 ; Edward Lyman, born March 25, 1867 ; Walter 
Jackson, born Oct. 5, 1870 ; Frederick Hamilton, born March 15, 
1873 ; Mary Louise, born Oct. 12, 1875 ; Winthrop Holman, who 
was born Nov. 12, 1878, and died in infancy. 

EDWARD I. BROWNE thinks he has no history to relate. 
This is partly explained bj^ the fact that he is still unmarried. But 
all of us in Boston are familiar with his reputation as a trustee and 
custodian of propert\\ He has been associated for several 3'ears 
in his business with Charles Thorndike. The office of Browne 
& Thorndike is No. 47 State Street. Browne is now one of the 
trustees of the Francis estate ; and those of us who have families 
hope, for the sake of those we love best, that Browne will long sur- 
vive us. His house is No. 52 Commonwealth Avenue. 

CHARLES WILLIAM BUCK resided for some years in Port- 
land, Me., as pastor of the Unitarian Church in that city. His 
present abode is unknown to the Secretary. 
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WILLIAM COLEMAN BURNS is said to be in Europe, and 
his probable address is, care of Messrs. J. S. Morgan & Co., 
Paris. 

EDWARD HENRY CHACE. Nothing has been heard from 
Chace since our graduation. 

CHARLES A. CHASE succeeded his father as Treasurer of 
Worcester Count}' in 1865. He held that office until January, 
1876, when he was elected Register of Deeds, which office he held 
until 1877. For the next three j^ears he served as the Secretarj^ of 
the Board of Trade, and in 1879 superintended the establishment 
of a successful telephone exchange. In the summer of 1879, he 
wrote " The History of Worcester" (120 pages royal octavo) for 
"The History of Worcester County," published by C. J. Jewett 
& Co., of Boston. In November last he was elected Treas- 
urer of the Worcester Institution for Savings, with which he had 
been connected for several years as trustee, Auditor, and member 
of the Board of Investment. He has two children : Mary Alice, 
born Oct. 10, 1865, and Maud Eliza, born Sept. 2, 1867. 

CHANNING CLAPP, at the close of the war in 1865, went 
on a plantation in Georgia, near Savannah. In 1867 he engaged 
in business in New Orleans, where he remained during the winters 
of ten 3'ears, spending the summer at the North. He was married 
in 1869, and returned to Boston in 1877, where he has since re- 
sided. He has dealt in cotton. 

JAMES BENJAMIN CLARK was recently reported to the 
Secretary as living in Texas, but his address is not 3'et received. 

* RANDOLPH MARSHALL CLARK, after serving as First 
Lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, was transferred to 
the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, receiving a captain's commis- 
sion. His health had been so undermined h}^ camp life that the 
surgeon of the regiment refused to give him a certificate, and he 
was thus pj'eventcd from joining the regiment. This was a bitter 



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disappointment, as he had cherished a hope of serving in the army 
to the end of the war. 

He visited Europe many times, travelhng extensively in Norway 
and Sweden, and making a second extended trip through Russia, 
visiting the Crimea and writing letters for the press, which were 
widely copied. He wrote several lectures on Russia, particularly 
Moscow and the Crimea, which he delivered before various societies. 
He had the financial charge of a large mill, of which his father was 
chief owner, and also the exclusive charge of his father's affairs 
during a protracted absence in Europe. He was devotedly attached 
to the church of his choice (the Protestant Episcopal) , working zeal- 
ously in her various organizations and filling positions of responsi- 
bility. He died suddenly at his father's house in Dedhara, Sept. 
11, 1873, of heart disease, leaving a widow and two daughters, the 
eldest of which is Eleanor Vinton, born March 30, 1867; the 
younger, Ethel Randolph, born June 6, 1870. 

He left an ample estate for his family. His widow is living in 
Pomfret, Conn., where she has a beautiful estate. She has spent 
some time in Europe since his death, for the better education of 
her children. 

THOMAS WILLIAM CLARKE is in active practice at the 
Suffolk Bar. He has made specialties of patent and copyright law. 
He is, especially in the latter department, one of the authorities in 
this countr3^ He has written an essay on the Steam Power of 
Massachusetts for the Census Bureau of this State, which is pub- 
lished in the Superintendent's report. This essa}' has been highly 
praised by Prof. Bowen as a politico-economical contribution to 
general knowledge on this subject. One newspaper called it 
" gorgeous in diction," and another " brilliant and complete," while 
it impressed a third " as a choice and novel production." This 
great man has found much refreshment, during his hours of ease, 
in teaching the bo3's and girls of his neighborhood to ride. He is 
saved from astonishing revelations solely by his prompt repentance 
and reformation at half past eleven, after the receipt of the Secre- 
tary's second circular. 



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GEORGE GORDON CROCKER. When last hejird of, 
Crocker was living somewhere in the South. 

JOSEPH MACKENZIE GUSHING still resides in Baltimore, 
and is a member of the firm of Cushings & Bailey. When last 
heard from, he was unmarried. 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS CUTTER has made a great reputa- 
tion as a bibliographer. His material children are Philip Charap- 
ne}^ born at Cambridge, Nov. 5, 1866 ; Roland Norcross, born at 
the same place, July 28, 1868. His handwriting is of the meanest 
description ; but, when you get at the contents, your labors are 
repaid. He has forgotten how to spell, however. His intellectual 
children consist of many notes in the Nation; a letter in the 
Nation of Feb. 8, 1877, in reply to Prof. Hagen, who, intending to 
attack the system of cataloguing used at Harvard College, had 
criticised the American ideas of cataloguing in general. Cutter 
continued this subject in the Library Journal^ Vol. I., pages 216 to 
220. Cutter has edited the department bibliographical (spelt with 
an " f ") in the Library Journal^ from its foundation in 1876. He 
has contributed many articles, communications, and notes to the 
Library Journal. He has published a most valuable set of rules 
for a dictionary catalogue, which he graciouslj^ has sent to the Sec, 
retary, who now waits for his other classmates to furnish the dic- 
tionaries. He also made the catalogue for the Winchester town 
library, and has brought the catalogue of the Boston Athenaium 
down to the letter " S." He has continued to be the librarian of 
the Boston Athenaeum ever since 1865. He attended the confer- 
ence of librarians in London, Oct. 2 to 5, 1877, and made a week's 
visit in Paris. In his old age, he has become ga}^, not to say frivo- 
lous. He has taken considerable part, of late, not only in social 
and literary clubs, but has absolutely joined in private theatricals. 
He is engaged in the preparation of a general sj'stem of classifica- 
tion of books on the shelves, to be used primarilj' in the Atlie- 
nieum, but also intended for use elsewhere. This he is about to 
publish, and will give in it his own novel plan of notation. In 
1877 he removed from Cambridoe to Winchester. 



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He is respectfully referred to old Major Pendennis (1 Pen. 
Thack. 75), — ''What! love a woman who spells affection with 
only one ' f? " 

* EDWARD BARRY DALTON died in California, on May 
13, 1872. With his career as Medical Director of the Army of the 
Potomac we are all familiar. He tendered his resignation to the 
adjutant general on April 24, 1865, for the reason "that, as the 
necessity for A'olunteer medical officers in the army was no longer 
pressing, he wished to turn his attention to private business." His 
resignation was accepted, with the recommendation that he receive 
the thanks of the War Department for meritorious services. On 
Aug. 15, 1865, he received, for " faithful and meritorious services," 
brevets of Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel. 

He spent the summer in rest, and returned to his profession in 
New York City, where, in September, 1865, he formed a medical 
copartnership with Dr. George A. Peters, which continued for 
several years with entire pleasure to both parties. 

In March, 1866, Dalton's genius for executive work was again 
called into exercise by his being chosen the chief executive officer 
of the Metropolitan Board of Health for New York, Brooklyn, and 
the adjacent country. His title was " Sanitar}^ Superintendent," 
and he organized a corps of twenty-four inspectors and thirtj'-seven 
assistants for this work. The complete result of his efficient ser- 
vices is found in the account of the work accomplished b}^ the 
Board, which is given in an article written by Dalton in the 
North American Review for April, 1868. Graduall}^ however, the 
control of the Board became an instrument for part}^ management, 
and Dalton retired from his office in Januarj^, 1869, because he 
would not lend himself to such arts. 

He had been during this period clinical assistant to the Pro- 
fessor of Medicine in the New York College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, and lecturer on nervous diseases in the summer session, 
and visiting phj^sician to several private charities and hosj)itals. 

In 1868, he lost his only child, an infant daughter of less than 
a year in age. 

In 1869, his wife died in confinement, and shortly afterwards 



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his own health gave way, and he was entirely disabled hy an attack 
of latent pleurisy. He was long an invalid, and obliged to with- 
draw from active business. He travelled in Europe during this 
period; and in October, 1869, he returned to Boston, and became 
visiting ph3^sician to the Massachusetts General Hospital, and in- 
structor in the theory and practice of medicine in the Medical Col- 
lege. But not for long. In October, 1871, he was forced again 
to travel for his health, and visited California in hope that the 
milder climate of the Pacific coast might still prolong his useful- 
ness. He established himself in the neighborhood of Santa Bar- 
bara, wdiere he had nearly completed his arrangements for pur- 
chasing a farm ; but in the following spring he again failed and 
never rallied. Members of his family were with him when he died, 
on May 13, 1873. 

A friend who knew him well says : — 

" I never shall forget the tender grace of his home in the midst 
of that great hospital near City Point. Living in the midst of 
thousands of wounded and the sick, his wife was with him, and they 
both seemed like angels of merc}^ to soothe the pains of war." 

As blow after blow came upon him and shattered his earthl}^ 
hopes, he exhibited the spirit which he had taught us to expect of 
him. Patient, cheerful, brave, he died, as he had lived, a noble- 
hearted gentleman. 



GEORGE DEXTER, from 1866 to 1871, spent the greater part 
of each year in New Orleans. In 1872 he married Miss S. U. 
Endicott, of Salem, and was in Europe during 1872-3. He re- 
turned to this country in the autumn of 1873, and has since resided 
in Longwood. He was for many years engaged in buying cotton ; 
but in 1877 he accepted the treasurership of the Pepperell and 
Laconia Cotton Mills. He has one son, born in October, 1874, at 
Longwood. He gives the Secretary good advice not to wait for 
residuary bequests, but to get what money he can out of the class 
now for class-scholarship funds. The Secretary proposes to follow 
that advice. 



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JOHN W. EDGERLY still lives at Ottumwa, Iowa. His chil- 
dren are as follows : Edward Tyler, born Jan. 15, 1864 ; Adeline 
Chambers, born Dec. 6, 1866 ; John Woods, Jr., born Aug. 20, 
1868; Alice Louise, born October 15, 1870; Ellen Maria, born 
Nov. 21, 1872 ; George E., born July 23, 1877. His eldest son is 
now attending Phillips Academy, at Exeter, and proposes to enter 
Freshman at Harvard in 1881. Edgerly continued in the hardware 
business in Ottumwa until 1873. He then purchased stock in the 
Iowa National Bank of that place ; was elected Vice-President at 
that time, and, shortly afterwards, on the resignation of the former 
cashier, became cashier, which office he still holds. He has been a 
member of the Board of Education in Ottumwa for about twelve 
years, and for most of that time has been President of the Board. 

* PAYSON PERRIN ELLIS died at Shanghae, China, Sept. 26, 
1863. 

JAMES A. EMMERTON was marked out for a distinguished 
career in charge of the insane. He has consequentlj' stuck very 
closel}^ to Salem, and the neighborhood of his old chum. He is 
thought to have preserved him from delirium of manj' kinds ; but 
all his efforts have been insufficient to prevent Waters and Ropes 
from sinking into lethargy when the writing of a letter is sug- 
gested. 

*LANGDON ERVING died in Baltimore on May 20, 1862. 

ALFRED DOUGLAS EVANS, early in the war of the Rebel- 
lion, was paymaster on a United States vessel. After the capture 
of New Orleans, he was emplo3'ed in government service in the 
custom-house or revenue office at that port till about 1869, when he 
went to Austin, Texas, and there became connected with the land 
office till about 1872. In that year he returned to Boston, and, 
with the exception of one year spent in Europe, was there occupied 
as a conveyancer till 1877. In that year he removed to Corpus 
Christi, Texas, where he now resides. He has never been married. 



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WILLIAM HENRY EVANS was for some years settled in 
Hol3'oke, Mass., but resigned about a year ago, and is at present 
in Cambridgeport. He has been a diligent student in his profes- 
sion, and is said to have displayed unusual vigor as a theological 
writer and speaker. 

HENRY SIDNEY EVERETT has been for some years in the 
diplomatic employment of the United States, and is residing abroad. 

FRANK WILLIAM FISKE is a prosperous merchant in Buffalo. 
Being detained by a railroad breakdown for a few hours in that 
city last winter, the Secretary called at his house, and finding Fiske 
absent, spent the evening in narrating to his children the pranks of 
their father in college. He took the precaution to leave just before 
that father returned, and has not again ventured to stop in Buffalo. 

EDWIN AUGUSTUS GIBBENS has for many years conducted 
a successful school for bo^^s in the city of New York. His present 
location is opposite the Windsor Hotel, on Fifth Avenue. Before 
going to New York, he resided in Waltham for several 3- ears, in 
charge of the New Church School in that place. He has several 
children. 

JOHN GREEN, in July, 1865, was Uving in Boston, practising 
medicine when people would let him, and supposing himself fixed 
there for life. In November of that 3^ear he " pulled up stakes in 
Boston to drive them anew in St. Louis, where they still stick 
fast." He spent the winter of 1865 and 1866 in Europe, and in 
the summer of 1866 began making diseases of the eye his specialty. 
He married, Oct. 22, 1868, Harriet Louisa Jones, of Templeton, 
Mass., cousin of Jones on Mortgages. His children are: John, 
born in Templeton, Aug. 2, 1873 ; Elizabeth, born in St. Louis, 
Dec. 3, 1878. 

On his regular tour the Secretary examined Green's quarters in 
St. Louis, which were found surrounded with a crowd of sore 93^68. 
His own sight was so far affected that he was unable to see Green in 
his own home. It is unnecessary to sa3' to any one who is familiar 



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with the West that Green stands in the front rank of Western 
oculists, and is a great authority in that branch of medical practice. 
He informs me that he has no grandchildren as 3'et, but is not 
without hope. 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS GREGORY has lived in Chicago for 
the last fifteen j^ears He had accumulated a large property before 
the fire. Subsequently, he was president of the Cook County Land 
Company. Within the last two years, he has returned to the active 
practice of the law in Chicago. His office is at No. 184 Dearborn 
Street. He has one son, Harold, who is about eleven years old. 

JOSEPH GUTMAN has been for many years in New York City, 
oue of the leading United States Commissioners. He has sat as 
magistrate in several of the most important extradition cases, and 
is said to have exported more rascals than anj^ other man in the 
country. He is the proper person to take your depositions, de bcne^ 
in New York. 

GEORGE HENRY HAMPSON. Nothing has been heard 
from Hampson since the last report. 

JOSEPH HAYES is still engaged in business in New York 
Cit}', and is president of mining companies. He has visited 
Colorado and South America. His present address is No. 4 Post- 
Offlce Square, Boston, Mass. 

JOSEPH CONVERSE HEY WOOD has published several 
poems, which, for want of presentation copies, the Sccretarj' can- 
not properly criticise. He is said to have lately married a wealthy 
widow lady in Philadelphia, and to be at present in P^urope. 

HENRY LEE HIGGINSON travelled in Europe during 1872. 
He is married to Miss Ida Agassiz, and now lives in Boston. He 
has been for several years a member of the firm of Lee, Higginson 
& Co. He has been associated with Alexander Agassiz in his 
copper mines, and like everybody' else coiniectcd with those enter- 
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prises, has reaped a golden liarv. st from them, as well as from 
many other independent ventures of his own and of his firm. 

CHARLES GUSHING- HOBBS is supposed to be still residing 
in South Berwick practising law, and, as he last reported himself 
in 1865, absorbed in " maiden meditation," though " fanc}^ free." 

* GEORGE FOSTER HODGES died at Hall's Hill, near 
Alexandria, on Jan. 31, 1862, in the military service of the United 
States. 

JAMKS K. HOSMER. His children are: Edward Stebbins, 
born at Deerfield, Mass., June 1, 1876 ; PJliot Norton, born at Yel- 
low Springs, Ohio, Dec. 28, 1868 (died June, 18V9) ; Ernest 
Cutter, born at Yellow Springs, Ohio, July 2, 1870 ; Josephine, 
born at Columbia, Mo., March 31, 1874 ; Ruth, born at St. Louis, 
Mo., Oct. 20, 1879. He was married, for the second time, Nov. 
27, 1878, to Miss Jenny P. Garland, of St. Louis. 

His writings are as follows: In 1870, for the Atlantic Monthly, 
*' Father Meriel's Bell " ; in 1871, "The Giant in the Spiked Helmet " 
(an account of Prussia) ; in 1872, '^The New Wrinkle at Sweet- 
brier" ; in 1876, " At Lutzen." He has written for the New York 
Nation, " Our Town Nomenclature," '^ The Talk of the Unlettered 
Folk," " The Drama in Colleges " " A Famous Field " (an account 
of a visit to the battle-field of Hastings) . He has written for the 
Western (St. Louis), '' Let us be Intelligible " ; " Heinrich Heine " ; 
•'A Ghost's Adventure." In 1874, he read before the National 
Education Association a paper on " Co-education," published in 
the Transactions of the Association. He has also wTitten numerous 
book reviews for Old and New, the Christinn Register, and the JAt- 
erary World, writing for the latter, critiques of Boj'esen's " Goethe 
and Schiller," and Bayard Taylor's '' Sketches of German Litera- 
ture." In 1878, he wrote a book entitled "A Short History of 
German Literature," which is exceedingl}^ interesting and has met 
with great favor. 

He greatly regrets that he cannot attend the dinner, and sends 
kind words to all. 



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SAMUEL JOHNSTON still resides in Chicago, where he owns 
vast acres of his own, and runs horse-railroads over other people's 
acres to his own profit. As he makes no report to the contrary, he 
is supposed to be married and have a ftimily of ten children, and 
to be the first grandparent among us. 

LEONARD A. JONES was married on the fourteenth day 
of December, 1867, to Josephine H. Lee, of Templeton, Mass. 
His onl}^ child, Arthur Lee, was born March 9, 1869, and died 
Oct. 18 of the same year. His publications have been as fol- 
lows : In 1871, two articles in Old and New on '• The Language of 
Brutes"; in 1877, an article in the Southern Law Review on 
" Power of Sale, Mortgages, and Trust Deeds"; in 1878, "A 
Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real Property," in two vol- 
umes ; also two articles in the Southern Law M'-view, the first on 
" The Legal Nature of Rolling-Stock of Railroads," and the sec- 
ond on " Receivers of Railroads" ; and an article in the American 
Law Reoiew on "Claims and Equities Affecting the Prioritj^ of 
Railroad Mortgages"; in 1879, a second and revised edition of 
" Mortgages of Real Property," above named ; also, " A Treatise 
on the Law of Railroad and other Corporate Securities, including 
Municipal Aid Bonds " ; also, an article in Southern Law Revievj 
on " Fraudulent Mortgages of Merchandise " (afterwards published 
as a monograph) ; in 1880, two articles in American Law Review 
on " The Law of Corporate Securities." He is also about to pub- 
lish soon " A Treatise on the Law of Chattel Mortgages," and 
" A Treatise on the Law of Pledges and Collateral Securities." 

SAMUEL CROCKER LAWRENCE has continued to reside 
in Medfo'rd. Lawrence was a member of the Stockholders' Com- 
mittee in the Eastern Railroad at the time of the collapse in its 
stock some four years ago. He was a heavy stockholder, and was 
chosen president of the company during its reorganization period, 
and was largely instrumental in bringing it into its present sound 
condition. 

Lawrence's adopted son graduated at Harvard in 1879. 



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WILLIAM PITT FEEBLE LONGFELLOW married Miss 
Emily Daniell of Boston in 1870. He was, for upwards of two 
_years, assistant supervising architect of the United States at 
Washington. Then he resigned that office and travelled in Europe 
with his wife. On his return, he bought a house in Cambridge 
near his uncle, Henr}^ W. Longfellow, where he still resides. He 
is the editor of the American Architect's Journal^ and is engaged 
in the business of his profession. 

BENJAMIN SMITH LYMAN is in Japan, where he has been 
making geological and mining surveys since 1873. He has now 
closed his work for the Mikado's government, but still remains in 
Japan. He has surveyed, and described in printed reports, a large 
part of the Japanese empire, and knows more about the countries 
which compose it than probably any other living white man. He has 
lived there exclusively for seven years, and is able to speak the lan- 
guage perfectly, and has, besides, traversed many of its regions 
where foreigners seldom go. During the year previous to going to 
Japan, Lj^man was a mining engineer emploj^ed b}^ the government 
of India upon survej^^s in the Punjaub. Any communications sent to 
the care of Miss Mary Lyman, Northampton, Mass , will be for- 
warded to his address. He has never been married. 

CHARLES FREDERICK LYMAN continues to reside in Bos- 
ton, but is not engaged in active business. 

THEODORE LYMAN has lived, since the Secretary's last 
report, in Boston and Brookline, except from October, 1871, to 
August, 1873, when he travelled in Europe. There, in Jul}", 1873, 
he had the sorrow to lose his daughter Cora, his only child at that 
time. There have been since born to him two sons : Theodore, 
Nov. 23, 1874, and Henry, Nov. 7, 1878. 

From the time of his appointment, in 1865, he has been a Com- 
missioner of Fisheries for Massachusetts, the first State to begin 
an organized effort for the cultivation and preservation of food- 
fishes. The movement thus started has extended to thirty-one 
other States and to the United States government, whose commis- 



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sion, furnished with a large appropriation, lias carried on a series 
of experiments and observations of a magnitude never before 
attempted. 

He has done something in the zoolog}' of radiated animals, has 
taken a constant interest in our Alma Mater, and has given much 
attention to public charities. He is, as we all know, a bountiful 
and judicious giver, and never forgets old friends. 

He is an Overseer of Harvard College ; member of the faculty 
of the Museum of Comparative Zoologj' ; trustee of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and of the national Peabody Education 
Fund ; member of the Boston Society of Natural Histor}', the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academ}' 
of Sciences, and of the Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux ; and presi- 
dent of the Boston Farm School. His principal publications have 
been : — 

Illustrated Catalogue of the Ophiurid?e and Astrophytidse in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoolog}', 1865, with a Supplement, 1871. 

Report on Ophiuridse and Astroph3^tid9e dredged b}^ L. F. dc 
Pourtales, 1869. 

Papers relating to the Garrison Mob, 1870. 

Note sur les Ophiurides et Euryales du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle 
de Paris, 1872. 

Ophiuridse and Astrophytidse, old and new, 1874. 

Ophiuridcne and Astrophj'tidae of the "Hassler" Expedition, 1875. 

Dredging Operations of the U. S. Steamer " Blake " : Ophiurans, 
1875. 

Prodrome of the Ophiuridse and Astrophytidtfi of the " Chal- 
lenger " Expedition. Part I., 1878 ; Part II., 1879. 

All the Annual Fishery Reports of Massachusetts, from 1865 to 
the present year, have been wholly or in part written b}- him. 

The class owes him much for his unflagging and generous inter- 
est in our reunions and all class affairs. Like Hodges, he never 
fails to remember his classmates and do his best for them. 

* MALCOLM MACEUEN died several years ago in Pennsyl- 
vania. 

WILLIAM MACKAY, shortly after the last report, removed to 



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New York, and engaged in bnsiness there. He afterwards retired 
from business, and lived a considerable time abroad. Returning 
with his famil}' to this countrjs he resided for a year in Cambridge, 
and now lives in Southboro', Mass. 

WILLIAM SLIDELL McKENZIE, although one would not 
have thought it of him, repented and reformed at the eleventh hour, 
and then endeavored to soothe the Secretary's feelings by address- 
ing him as " that once mild 3'onth." In 1865, McKenzie was the 
pastor of a church in Providence, R. I., where he had been settled 
since the opening of the jes^r 1860. His health, however, broke 
down under the severe pressure of work. He was obliged to resign 
his pastorate and seek rest. Under medical advice, he took his 
family, then consisting of his wife and two children, and went to 
New Brunswick, where he bought a horse, and pitched his tent on 
the banks of the Mirimachi River. At the end of a year his health 
was completely restored. Although he does not confess it, this 
result was undoubtedly attained by a sort of Friar-Tuck life, pro- 
fuse indulgence in salmon-fishing and venison in that delightful 
region. He is reported to have strolled through the forests with a 
breech-loader, and, in the intervals of theological reflection, to have 
brought down many a fine buck. The natives preserve traditions 
that he dropped his meditations and the buck every time that animal 
appeared. But McKenzie struggled with his natural man, over- 
came his unhallowed love of field sports, and, returning to civiliza- 
tion, was again settled as a pastor in the city of St. John, N. B., 
where he preached until the summer of 1872, and also assisted in 
the publication of a weekly religious journal. During this period, 
however, the original Adam was strong within him. He actualh', 
even now in his subdued state, takes pride in the remembrance that 
he plunged his paper into several long and heated controversies on 
various topics. He got people generall}^ together bj' and on their 
ears, and received his full share of hard names and abuse, as he 
says ; but probablj^ did not get his full deserts. Several sheets 
took up cudgels against him ; and, although he cheerfuUj^ says that 
this was fun to him, it is understood thatits results were deadly to 
his adversaries. He left St. John, and, doubtless on account of 
his fighting qualities, was made the secretary for the District of 



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New England in connection with the Htiptist Missionary Union, 
which has general charge of the Baptist missions over the world. 
McKenzie is thought to have tackled the great Adversar}- ver}' suc- 
cessfully in j)cirtibus infidelium. In addition to his duties as secre- 
tarj', he has conducted the editorial work of the society's missionary 
periodical. His office is in the Tremont Temple, in Boston. His 
home is in the town of Winchester, about eight miles from Boston. 
He frequently traA^els through New England, and disburses each 
year about $300,000 in the work of his society. McKenzie has 
six children, to wit : J. W. Merrill, the class baby, Lizzie Stan- 
wood, Charles Fisk, Maud Cranston, Andrew Comstock, and Anna 
Knight. The class did well in giving McKenzie a substantial class 
cradle ; and he has done well in fiUing it. Although, it is true, the 
Secretary, being then unmarried and without experience, delivered 
the cradle without any mattress or bedding, and left the first-born 
progeny of the class to sleep on the slats, this arrangement seems 
to have proved salutary. The class baby was born in Andover, 
July 11, 1858 ; but as McKenzie confesses that his family Bible is 
not at hand, he does not know when the rest were born, but is sure 
of the great fact. The class baby, when about ready to enter col- 
lege, was seized with a mania for going to sea. He doubled Cape 
Horn, but was satisfied with one voyage. He is now employed in 
a manufacturing establishment in Boston, and is married. He 
keeps house in Chelsea, and, his father says, is raising a family, 
and regretting every day that he did not go to college. His father 
expects him to chew the cud of repentance all his days. The 
information of the Secretary is not definite on the point, but, ac- 
cording to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief, it is a 
fairly open question whether McKenzie has not had the grand 
CLASS BABY also. If tliis is so, the class ought to make a special 
appropriation to get bedding to cover the slats of the class cradle. 

In 1873, Lagrange College, in Missouri, added a D. D. to 
McKenzie's name. He says he does not know wh}' the title was 
given him, and is equally ignorant how to shake it off. The great 
success upon which he prides himself in life is in keeping all his 
bills paid ; and truly, in so doing, he excites the envy of some of 
his classmates who have not done so much. He says that his 
interest in the class grows stronger every year. 



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GEORGE FREDP:RICK McLELLAN was busy, from 1861 to 
1868, practising law in Washington, D. C, with good success, until 
his health became impaired by overwork. From 1868 to 1874 he 
was president of the Board of Education of the district, and labored 
energetically in irapioving the public schools. By direction of his 
phj^sician, he then removed to Los Angeles, Cal., where he is now 
engaged in the insurance business, and finds his health thoroughly 
restored. He writes that his children are all unborn, and likely to 
remain in that blest condition of innocence ; and that he would be 
" glad to have his hair stand on end if it would only come back." 
He sends cordial remembrances to the class. 

CHRISTOPHER BRIDGE MARSH has remained in the em- 
ploj^raent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Com- 
pany, the office of which is in Cincinnati, O. On Nov. 3, 1869, 
he was married to Carol3'nne Denison Disney. His children are : 
Richard Disne}^ born March 25, 1873, at Connors ville, Ind. ; 
Pearson Fessendon, born June 25, 1875, at Glendale, O. ; William 
Hunt, born April 14, 1877, at Glendale, O. For the last five 
years he has been living in Glendale, about fifteen miles from Cin- 
cinnati. Marsh is cashier of the company, and means to come to 
the dinner. He says he is the only member of the class in Ohio. 

* WILLIAM WARD MERIAM was murdered by Turkish rob- 
bers on July 3, 1862, while residing as missionary at Philippopolis. 

JAMES TYNDALE MITCHELL has been hard at work in 
the law, since 1865, in Philadelphia. In 1871 he was elected to 
the bench of the District Court of Philadelphia, a court of general 
original jurisdiction, both at law and in equity, in all cases involv- 
ing more than five hundred dollars. This position he still holds, 
except that, in 1875, the name of the court was changed to the 
Court of Common Pleas. Since 1862 he has been the chief and 
responsible editor of the American Law Register, which is well 
known in the profession as second in importance and influence to 
no other law journal in the country. It is said to have the largest 
circulation and the widest distribution of all the law periodicals. 



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Its success is largel}* due to the learning and skill which Mitchell 
has displa3'ed in its conduct. Besides his editorial work, he has 
l^iblished an edition of '* Williams on Real Propert}'," with American 
notes, several pamphlets on legal subjects, and performed a good 
deal of miscellaneous legal work. He is still unmarried. His 
office is No. 229 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia. He is our only 
judge, the rcu-a avis referred to in the Secretar3''s first circular. 

EDWIN MORTON was residing in Plymouth in 1865, and 
practising as a lawj'er in that vicinitj'. In 1868 he came to Bos- 
ton, where he maintained an office until 1874, when he left for a 
vo3'age around the world He was in California in 1875 ; in India, 
Egypt, and Greece in 1876 ; and has since that time resided, for 
the benefit of his health, at Baden, in Switzerland, at a water-cure 
hotel. His health, as the Secretary is informed, is not greatl}" im- 
proved, nor does it seem likel}^ to be much worse. He is not mar- 
ried, and is not known to have w^'itten any books or magazine 
articles since he left Boston. 

ROBERT TREAT PAINE followed the law, with good pecun- 
iar}^ reward, until May, 1870. He then revisited Europe for four 
months, and decided to retire from active practice and seek the 
future occupation of his life in things relating to the welfare of the 
laboring and poorer classes. Since then he has been engaged in 
making experiments and efforts to that end. He has built numer- 
ous small tenement houses for mechanics, and taken an active part 
in the management of the Co-operative Building Company, which has 
erected, renovated, and purified a great many homes for the labor- 
ing men in the vicinit}^ of Boston. He has activelj^ worked in the 
Episcopal Cit}' Mission among the Boston poor. He is the presi- 
dent of the recentl}^ established society, entitled '-The Associated 
Charities of Boston." Any one who wishes to understand this 
most judicious and effective form of charit}' organization, admirably 
planned and as admirably administered, should apply to Paine for 
a copy of his address, delivered at the Charity Building, Chardon 
Street, Boston, March 12, 1879. In this pamphlet, Paine has 
explained and discussed its principles aid object, which is to raise 
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the needy above the need of relief, rather than to give ahns. His 
treatment of the subject shows all that ability which we have a 
right to expect from our associate first-scholar. 

Paine is also president of the Wells Memorial Workingmen's 
Club and Institute for the workingmen of Boston. 

Paine was a member of the Building Committee of Trinity 
Church, over which Phillips Brooks is the rector. For nearly three 
years much of his time and thought was absorbed in his duties 
upon the committee, which reared this magnificent structure. 
Fine as it is, however, it is no more than a fitting place for the 
religious services which are held in it, and it is become the spiritual 
home of multitudes of the poor, as well as of the rich. 

Paine has had seven children, six of whom are still living : namely, 
Edithj born April 6, 1863, in Boston ; Fanny, born Jan. 13, 1865, 
in Boston; Robert Treat, born April 9, 1866, in Waltham ; Flor- 
ence, born Sept. 30, 1868, in Waltham, and died July 17, 1872; 
Ethel, born March 24, 1872, in Boston ; George Lyman, born 
April 29, 1874, in Waltham ; Lydia Lyman, born Sept. 6, 1876. 

* STEPHEN GEORGE PERKINS was killed in the battle of 
Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Aug. 9, 1862. 

WILLIAM DEAN PHILBRICK resides at Newton Centre, 
Mass. He is father of nine children. Thej^ are : Arthur, born 
Nov. 26, 1864 ; John Dean, born Oct. 13, 1866 ; Eliza, born May 
9, 1868 ; Anna Decatur, born Sept. 11, 1869 ; James Staigg, born 
Nov. 14, 1870 ; Helen, born March 5, 1871 ; Mary, born Aug. 3, 
1872 ; Margaret, born Dec. 24, 1874 ; Miriam, born July 18, 1876. 
His occupation is gardening. He has written several prize essa3's 
on gardening for the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture and the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Societj^ and has made numerous con- 
tributions to the agricultural press. 

WILLIAM QUINCY PHILLIPS has, since 1865, resided most 
of the time abroad. When in this country, his home is still in 
Cambridge, in the hospitable mansion of his late father, Judge 
Willard Phillips, as many of his classmates well know. 



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EDWARD S. RAND, Jr., practised law, especially conve}^- 
aiicing, in Boston, for some 3'ears. He also gave great attention 
to botany, and published several books, particular!}' in reference to 
the cultivation of flowers and horticulture. He was married on 
Nov. 23, 1858, to Miss Jennie Augusta Lathrop, of Dedham. His 
children are: Edward L., born Aug. 22, 1859; Henry L., born 
Jan. 1, 1862 ; Jennie A., born Oct. 21, 1868 ; and Percy A., born 
Aug. 20, 1872. For the last few 3'ears he has been in Brazil. 

JAMES REED. James Reed is still pastor of the Church of 
the New Jerusalem in Boston, the largest Swedenborgian society 
in the world. In addition to the four children named in my last 
report, he has the following: Joseph S., born Oct. 25, 1868; and 
Emily E., born Feb. 21, 1876. His daughter Miriam died March 
17, 1876, at the age of eleven years. He has published three 
books : namely, " Religion and Life," in 1868 ; " Man and 
Woman, Equal but Unlike," in 1870 ; and " Swedenborg and the 
New Church," in 1880. His eldest son, John, is on a voyage to 
Eastern Africa. 

The hearts of his people turn to him with constant affection ; 
and his peaceful life is the natural fruit of his boj'hood as we all 
knew it. 

WILLIAM WHITING RICHARDS is said to have a school 
in New York, and to reside in Hackensack, New Jersey. He is a 
criminally bad correspondent, and evidently unable to teach boys to 
write even English. Riddle sa3^s his address is No. 723 Sixth 
Avenue, New York ; but it is of no use to write to it. He has five 
children, William Milliken, Lowell Lincoln, Bessie, Gertie, and 
Frank. 

WILLIAM QUINCY RIDDLE has continued in the practice of 
law in New York. He will be with us at the dinner. He wrote to 
the Secretary a long letter, full of good-will, but without a particle 
of information in it, and not even mentioning his address. 

NATHANIEL ROPES lives in Salem, where he has resided for 
many years. He is supposed to be unmarried, and engaged in tak- 
ing care of his property and Waters and Emmerton. 



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ANTOINE RUPPANNER has practised meflicine with success 
jn the city of New York for many years. He hved for a long time 
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and now makes his home at the Wind- 
sor. He has also become a capitalist, and his name is mighty on 
Wall Street. He knows that Burgundy ought to lie down in a bas- 
ket, and not be shaken up for human imbibition. He makes rail- 
road tours over the country, in order to pick up profitable invest- 
ments. He was, when last heard of, travelling in stj'le to San 
Francisco in a private car. The impecunious members will do well 
to put him through a financial cross-examination as to his private 
fancies in bonds, when he appears at the dinner-table. 

He is also president of the Goethe Club ; and it was the Secre- 
tary's fortune to hear him last winter.advise a patient that to consult 
one ph3'sician was dangerous, that to employ two was almost cer- 
tainly fatal, while three in consultation invariablj' produced sudden 
death. His criticism filled the hearers with profound respect for his 
pocket, and strengthened their faith in homoeopathic pills. 

* EDWARD GRENVILLE RUSSELL was, shortly before the 
issuance of our first circular last March, thrown down b}' a runa- 
way horse, and his brain so injured that he did not recover con- 
sciousness while he lived. He died on Feb. 24, 1880. His funeral 
took place from the First Parish Church in Cambridge. Dr. Pea- 
body officiated at the church. The services at the house were 
conducted by the Rev. J. P. Bland, who also assisted at the church. 
Various societies, of which Russell was a member, were in attend- 
ance to pa}^ the last tribute of respect to his memorj^ His grave 
is on Fountain Avenue, No. 4001, Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Russell 
was always regular in attendance at our meetings, and it is said 
that he looked forward with great pleasure to being present this 
year, and intended to have written something to be read to the 
class. His home was No. 343 Harvard Street, Cambridge. The 
following sketch is furnished b}' his wife for insertion here : — - 

" He was one of the best known citizens of Cambridge, he hav- 
ing resided for man}' years in that cit}^ He has written several 
essays for the public press, and also several poems. He was boi-n 
at Groton, Mass., June 2, 1834, prepared for college at Phillips 



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Academy, Exeter, N. H., and entered Harvard College in 1S51. 
He graduated in 1855, with the degree of A. M., and immediately 
entered the Divinity ISchool, from which he graduated in 1858. 
He obtained a license to preach from the Boston Association of 
Ministers the same year, and shortlj' after was ordained as an 
Evangelist at Groton Junction, now Ayer. He was never assigned 
to any regular parish, but filled many pulpits acceptably', and fur- 
ther performed services as minister at large. 

"He was married, in Cambridge, Feb. 22, 1860, to Miss Mary 
A. Stewart, by the Rev. Caleb Davis Bradlee. 

" He held several offices of importance and influence, the duties 
of which he performed to the acceptance of those whom he served. 
He was Justice of the Peace, Notarj' Public, Commissioner to 
Qualify' Civil Officers, and Commissioner of Deeds for the States of 
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
and Connecticut. He was a prominent Democrat, and a candidate 
of the party for several prominent positions He was connected 
with and a prominent member of the following bodies : Mt. Olivet 
Lodge, F. A. M., of Cambridge; Miller Royal Arch Chapter, 
Franklin, Mass. ; Ciyptic Council, R. and S. Masters, Newtonville ; 
Gethsemane Commandeiy, K. of P., Newtonville ; Lafayette Lodge 
of Perfection, Boston ; Giles Y. Yates Council of P. of S , Boston ; 
Friendship Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Cambridgeport ; Charles River 
Encampment, I. O. O. F. ; the Grand Encampment, of Boston ; 
Mystic Lodge, K. of P., Natick Section ; and of the Grand Lodge, 
of Boston. He was connected with the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, Boston ; member of the German Rifle Club, 
National Lancers, and the Massachusetts Guards, of Boston Pie 
had insurance certificates, issued b}' six Masonic bodies, five Odd 
Fellows, and three Knights of Pythias Lodges. He also had a 
policy in the New England Life Insurance Company, of Boston. 
He was interested in real estate, to which he devoted much time, 
the balance of which was absorbed in the manifold duties connected 
with the bodies of which he was aii active member, and in which 
he held positions requiring ability and skill of a high order, and for 
which he had special qualifications. He was at several times pre- 
sented with Jewels and regalias. He delivered a lecliire on 'Odd 



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Fellowship' before Friendship Lodge, in 1874, which was consid- 
ered one of the most brilliant ever presented before that justly 
celebrated bod3^ 

" He was a lover of the German language, and frequenth^ contrib- 
uted translations to the press. He was the compiler of a key to 
'Fosse's Spanish Grammar,' indorsed by Prof. S. C. Bello, Span- 
ish Instructor of Harvard College, and as a writer and speaker 
won renown. He prepared, and there will be given to the public, 
a volume of his writings in prose and poetry." 

GEORGE PEABODY RUSSELL is one of the trustees under 
the will of his uncle, the late George Peabody, of London, and is 
supposed to give his whole time to the administration of the chari- 
ties which that will created. He never suffered any permanent ill 
effects from being drowned while bathing in the Connecticut River 
during his Sophomore 3^ear at Dartmouth ; while the resolutions 
which we sorrowfully passed in his honor at our class-meeting 
(prior to his arrival at it) have done him good service ever since 
as a permanent certificate of moral character. They are under- 
stood to have been the foundation of his late uncle's confidence in 
him, and to have been a chief cause of his being made a trustee of 
the girls' school at Bradford and his designation to his present 
responsible office. 

FRANKLIN B. SANBORN cannot be with us at the dinner. 
He pledged himself to attend the Conference of Charities in Cleve- 
land, O., on the same da}^, before he knew of the date of our 
meeting. In 1865, he was secretary of the Massachusetts Board 
of State Charities, by the appointment of Governor Andrew. In 
October of that year, at a meeting over which Governor Andrew 
presided, he assisted in organizing the American Social Science 
Association, of which he was one of the secretaries, until 1868 ; 
and has been, since 1873, the sole chief secretary. He has pla3"ed 
an important part in the maintenance of that important organiza- 
tion. In 1874, he called together the first Conference of Charities, 
and has had much to do with establishing this institution on a sound 
basis. He has written several of its publications, and gives its 
history in two reports in the social economy department. In 1866 



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and 1867, Sanborn called the meeting ont of which grew the Mas- 
sachusetts Infant Asylum, which our classmate, Theodore Lj'man, 
some 3'ears later, so generously endowed. This is one of the most 
successful institutions in existence for the preservation of infant 
life, where the father and mother have deserted their offspring. 
Sanborn was one of its first directors, and largely concerned in its 
active management, until he removed to Springfield in 1868. In 
1866 and 1867, Sanborn helped to found the Clarke Institution for 
Deaf-Mutes, which first made successful the teaching of articulation 
to deaf children in New England, Sanborn has been for two years 
president of this institution, and has seen it grow from a school of 
ten or twelve to a school of eighty, with a national reputation. In 
these works, and almost all of his charitable enterprises, he labored 
with his old friend, Dr. Samuel G. Howe. He succeeded Dr. 
Howe, in 1870, as chairman of the Board of State Charities in 
Massachusetts; and in that position, made, in 1875, a searching 
investigation into the abuses of the Tewksburj* Almshouse. Dr. 
Howe died while this investigation was pending; but after his 
death Sanborn succeeded in pressing through his project, and 
caused the establishment to be reconstructed medicallj^ and morally, 
to the great comfort of many hundreds of poor people. In 1877, 
Sanborn was engaged in the investigation then made of the Dan vers 
Hospital and the Westboro' Reform School, and effected important 
reforms in them both. In 1878 and 1879, in co-operation with 
Gov. Talbot and others, he reorganized the whole sj'stem of Mas- 
sachusetts State charities, with special reference to the care of chil- 
dren and insane persons ; and, in July, 1879, became Inspector of 
Charities under the new board, then established b}^ the State of 
Massachusetts. Since that time he has been devoting himself par- 
ticularly to the administration of our lunacy sj'stem, which has 
grown into \evy great importance. He visits Cleveland at this 
time, especiall}^ with a view to present that matter to the National 
Conference, and to bring about the concert of national action. He 
has steadily endeavored to reform the discipline of our American 
prisons. In company with the late Dr. Wines, he wrote a general 
report on that subject for the International Congress held at Lon- 
don in 1872, and in Stockholm in 1878, though he was unable per- 
sonally' to attend at either place. His essays on the prison question 



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would make a volume of considerable size, while his other writings — 
literaiy, philanthropic, and statistical — would, if brought together, 
make over half a dozen volumes. In 1868, he was one of the 
editors of the Springfield RqjubUcan^ and as a journalist, has writ- 
ten on almost ever}" considerable literary, historical, philosophical, 
and poUtical topic. He has been a frequent contributor to the 
Atlantic and Sa'ibner's monthlies, the Nalion^ the Commonwealth^ 
the Independent^ the Boston Herald^ and other newspapers. For 
five or six j^ears past, he has been occupied in writing the life, 
and compiling letters of John Brown, of Kansas and Harper's 
Ferrj", and expects to publish the book in 1881. In concert with 
Mr. Alcott, Prof. Harris, and others, he has helped to establish the 
Concord Sumner School of Philosoply^, which is now in its second 
3^ear. Sanborn is the secretarj', and one of the lecturers. This 
undertaking promises to become a permanent institution. In Feb- 
ruar}^, 1865, Sanborn's first son was born. He is now a student at 
PhiUips', Exeter, Academ_y, where his father was fitted for college. 
His second son, Victor Channing, was born April 24, 1867, and is 
now in the Concord High School. His third and youngest son, 
F. B. Sanborn, Jr., was born Feb. 5, 1871. 

Sanborn lived in Springfield for four years, from 1868 to 1872. 
Since leaving Springfield he has resided at Concord, where he has 
built a charming house on Concord River, and named it " Ari- 
ana." He takes possession of it on his return from Cleveland. 
His office in Boston is at the State House. 

* CHARLES FREDERICK SANGER died in Brooklyn not 
long after the last report was published. 

GEORGE CARLETON SAWYER is still in charge of the 
Utica Academj", at Utica, N. Y. His professional engagements 
prevent his attending the dinner. His only son died some time 
ago, and the grief for his loss is ever fresh. Sawyer writes, very 
feelingly, his remembrances to his classmates, and desires " his 
cheerful greeting and liveliest remembrances to be presented to the 
class of 1855 from one who cherishes its dear associations." 

* SAMUEL RINGGOLD SCHLEY became a member of the 
Roman Catholic Church, and died near Baltimore many years ago. 



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GEORGE MANY SEA^^ELL was, Tvhen last heard of, still 
practising law in the city of San Francisco. 

CHARLES FRANCIS STONE Is engaged in the practice of 
law in New York Cit}', in the firm of Porter, Lowre}', Soren, and 
Stone^ No. 2 Broad Street. 

EDWARD PAYSON THWING has lived in Brooklyn since 
1874, and has published a number of sermons and tracts ; was 
recentl}' minister of the Church of the Covenant In that cit}^ ; was 
formerl}' of the Tabernacle Lay College, in Brooklyn ; published a 
lecture, entitled " Walks About Paris " ; a duodecimo volume, en- 
titled " Preacher's Cabinet," or, " Thwing's Handbook of Illustra- 
tions." He has given considerable attention to elocution, and 
published '' Thwing's Drill-Book in Vocal Culture and Gesture." 
He sends me his *' Golden Wedding Ode." He married Miss 
Susan M. Waite, of Portland, Maine. His children are, Giace, 
Clarence, Eugene, Edward Waite, and Gertrude. He has lost five 
children b}- death. He is associate editor of the HomiUtic Monthly. 
He does not furnish the dates of his children's birth, but is known 
to have had triplets, at least once. 

JOHN B. TILESTON was married to Miss Mary W. Foote, of 
Salem, Mass., Sept. 25, 1865. His children are: Mar}^ W., born 
at Salem, July 7, 1866; Margaret H., born at Salem, Nov. 1, 
1867; Roger E., born at Winchester, Aug. 7, 1869; Amelia P., 
born at Dorchester, Oct. 30, 1872 ; and Wilder, born at Concord, 
Jan. 22, 1875. He was engaged in bookselling and publishing in 
the firm of Brewer & Tileston until 1870. Being then out of 
health, he withdrew from business and travelled for two years in 
Sandwich Islands and California. He then became treasurer of the 
savings bank in Dorchester, and held that office from 1872 to 1874. 
Since 1874, he has lived upon his farm near Concord, Mass. 

WILLIAM HOSMER SHAILER VENTRES has lived at Peter 
boro', N. H., where he is said to be engaged in farming. He is 
reported to have seven children. 

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* ISAAC PARKER AVAIN\yRIGHT lived in Boston, in feeble 
health and out of active employment, for some time after the issue 
of the last report. He died in that citj^ several years ago, sud- 
denly. 

HENRY WALKER has remained in Boston in the practice of 
law. He was License Commissioner for the citj' of Boston during 
the 3'ears 1877 and 1878, and is now chairman of the Board of 
Police Commissioners of that city, having been appointed to hold 
office for three j^ears, from May 1, 1879. He is still unmarried. 

The Secretarj^'s autobiographical information from this gentle- 
man is limited, as he writes that he is in fear of the author offi- 
cially. " Once before 3'ou invited this fly into your parlor. I gave 
you what you asked for, and was in truth shocked at the result." 
The Secretar}^ forbears, out of mere}" to the writer, to quote the 
remainder of the sentence from Walker's letter. 

He thinks he has had no very remarkable experience since our 
last report. Has travelled all over the continent, from Berkshire 
to the Rocky Mountains, and from the Gulf to the St. Lawrence. 
He has been the treasurer of a church for ten years, the funds of 
which he still holds. He has also been an official in two or three 
charitable and ornamental associations. 

HENRY FITZ GILBERT WATERS is said to be much devoted 
to antiquarian pursuits, and resides in Salem. The air of that town 
seems to be unfavorable to intellectual activity. Ropes, Emmerton, 
and Waters have forgotten their learning, and presumedly do not un- 
derstand the optative mood any longer. The Secretary has no 
evidence that Waters and Ropes have not lost the abilit}^ to write ; 
and he fears they could not even read his late courteous favors. 

WALTER HENRY WILD. Nothing has been heard about 
Wild since 1865. 

JOSEPH WILLARD has been engaged in the practice of law 
in Boston for the last fifteen 3'ears, and in writing on topics in real- 
estate law. His office is at Room 8, No. 33 School Street, Boston ; 
and his house, No. 30 Stamford Street. 



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SMITH WRIGHT has continued in the firm of J. B. Clapp & 
Son, real-estate brokers, whose office now is at 198 Washington 
Street, Boston. Wright has three children living : Francis New- 
ton, born before 1865 ; Arthur Sidney, born Aug. 12, 1866 ; Charles 
Conrad, born Nov. 27, 1871. On the 10th of May, 1872, he es- 
tablished himself and family at 13 Berwick Park, where he still re- 
sides. The Secretary's first circular created in his mind a whole- 
some dread, and produced a prompt repl3\ He has the ideas of an 
intelligent laj'man in dreading the effect which twenty 3'ears' legal 
experience might produce, if exerted upon him. 

* ANDREW L AMMEY YONGUE was killed by an accident on 
the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, at Columbia, S. C, 
on Nov. 17, 1859. 



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